James Stirrat-Ellis

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Inventor with a diverse global project portfolio.
  • Expertise in building autonomous digital solutions.
  • Strong background in architecture and design engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a multidisciplinary innovator in architecture and digital product development.

Contact

james@build.incLinkedIn

About

Although I see business as the key to getting things done, at heart I'm an inventor. A self-taught designer & engineer who lets his curiosity decide his work. I have worked on everything from the building of city sized airport terminals, to mobile apps. Fortunately doing so across the world! Some of my projects include an automated drawing machine, a hyperlocal manufacturing system for making chairs from discarded timber waste, a platform to make remote work entirely multiplayer, wearable intelligence for cultural application & a suite of AI digital workers to automate the built world.

Experience

7 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Stealth startup

Co-founder & CEO

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco, New York, London

  • Building something extraordinary across San Francisco, New York & London.

11x.ai

CPTO

Dec 2023 – Nov 2024 · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Building autonomous digital workers.
  • Led Product and Engineering as CPTO through a 10x in revenue and a $24M Series A led by Benchmark. Later advisory role.

The moot company

Founder

Apr 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • First company.
  • Got bored of designing buildings & wanted a new challenge. Self-taught code, design & raised capital to make it happen. Built a range of products across mobile, web and hardware including a multiplayer workspace for remote work reaching users around the world.
  • Backed by world beating investors such as Richard Koch, the author of the bestselling 80/20 Principle and investor in Betfair (the world’s largest betting exchange), Grind, Filofax, Plymouth Gin, Belgo, FanDuel, Auto1 and others.

Heatherwick studio

Designer

Jul 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Architecture meets invention.
  • Designing mega-scale projects in Singapore (Changi T5), mixed-use projects in London, pro-bono work in South Africa and an ice-breaking super yacht designed for explorations across Antarctica and the Mediterranean.

British council

China Scholar

Aug 2018 – Nov 2018 · 3 mos · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  • Fully funded travel to Shenzhen, China via the British Council and CRCC Asia.

Around the world

Vagabonding

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · Worldwide

  • Traversed the circumference of the globe over a year, living & working in design.
  • Worked with a world renowned architecture firm in Barcelona to design series of large scale projects in Italy, Russia & China.
  • Worked as an architect in Shenzhen, China and played around with starting my first company, visiting many factories and learning hardware along the way.
  • Backpacked across California and got my USPA Skydive License.

Apple

Specialist

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Sold lots of phones whilst becoming an architect & learned the value of making things people want.

Education

Harvard University

Master of Architecture - MArch — Architecture

Imperial College London

Master of Science - MS — Innovation Design Engineering

Royal College of Art

Master of Arts - MA — Innovation Design Engineering

Queen's University Belfast

Bachelor of Science - BS — Architecture

USPA (B)

Licensed Skydiver — Skydiving

Dec 2019 – Present

Belfast High School

Maths

Sep 2014 – Present

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